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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Van Esterik, Penny. Materializing Thailand. Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2000 (OCoLC)607468675 |
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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Penny Van Esterik |
| ISBN: | 1859733069 9781859733066 1859733115 9781859733110 1859733654 9781859733653 1859733700 9781859733707 |
| OCLC Number: | 44189978 |
| Description: | xi, 274 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Crafting Thailand -- Ordering the past : representations of Thai women -- Buddhism and gender ideology -- Representing Thai culture -- Deconstructing display : gender and beauty -- Prostitution and foreign bodies -- Modelling Thai gender relations -- Context and continuity : grasshoppers, turtles and feminists. |
| Series Title: | Materializing culture. |
| Responsibility: | Penny Van Esterik. |
Abstract:
Thailand's sex industry and the high rate of AIDS and child exploitation is notorious, though absent from the glossy tourist brochures. Here, how the material world shapes gender relations and the role of Buddhism in Thailand is explored.
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Related Subjects:(11)
- Thailand -- Social conditions.
- Sex role -- Thailand.
- Buddhism and culture -- Thailand.
- Material culture -- Thailand.
- Sekseverschillen.
- Materiële cultuur.
- Rôle selon le sexe -- Thaïlande.
- Bouddhisme et civilisation.
- Culture matérielle -- Thaïlande.
- Thaïlande -- Conditions sociales.
- Femmes -- Thaïlande -- Conditions sociales.

